Mixtape Of The Day 9/19/2016: The Hidden '70s - The Taking Of Roger



Can the soul of a beloved serious musician be saved on a limited budget?

Featuring Diane Karagienakos as the Exorcist and Stanbery 'Stanley' Foster III as Roger. 

Tracklist below image.


Tracklist
The Taking of Roger
Little Jimmy Osmond - "Tweedlee Dee" (#59, 1973)
April Stevens - "Wake Up and Love Me" (#93, 1974)
Burt Bacharach - Theme from Lost Horizon (excerpt) (#63, 1973*)
Cledus Maggard & the Citizen's Band - "Kentucky Moonrunner" (#85, 1976)
The Alan Parsons Project - "The Raven" (PSHRG Put-A-Bird-On-It Remix) (#80, 1976)
Dick Feller - "Makin' the Best of a Bad Situation" (#85, 1974)

The Arriving of the Exorcist
Simon Stokes - "Captain Howdy" (#90, 1974)
Bill Wray - "Pinball, That's All" (from the motion picture Tilt(#96, 1979)
Sammy Davis, Jr. - "The People Tree" (PSHRG Space Invader Remix) (#92, 1972)
Clip from Rescue from Gilligan's Island
The Wonder Band - "Whole Lotta Love" (#87, 1979)
Band of the Black Watch - "Scotch on the Rocks" (SN CNNRY Remixsh) (#75, 1976)

The Applying of the Protective Plastic
The Goodies - "Funky Gibbon" (#79, 1975)
Clip from The Six Million Dollar Man
Bro Smith - "Bigfoot" (#57, 1976)
The Jimmy Castor Bunch - "King Kong" (#69, 1975)
Brownsville Station - "The Martian Boogie" (#59, 1977)
Cheech & Chong - "Black Lassie (A Great American Dog)" feat. Johnny Stash (#55, 1974)

The Appearing of the Daemon
Terry Bradshaw - "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" (#91, 1976)
Gabriel Kaplan - "Up Your Nose" (#91, 1977)
C.W. McCall - "The Old Home Filler Up and Keep On a-Truckin' Cafe" (#54, 1974)
Frank Zappa - "Dancin' Fool" (#45, 1979)
National Lampoon - "Deteriorata" (#91, 1972)

The Signing of the Time Card
Village People - "Ready for the '80s" (#52, 1979)
Ethel Merman - "There's No Business Like Show Business" (Disco Version)**
Steve Martin - "Grandmother's Song" (#72, 1977)

The Ending of the Mixtape

*Chart position is for Shawn Phillips' vocal recording of the entire theme, which contains the cited excerpt.

**Did not chart. Sue me.